Bruce Almighty (2003)
If you could be God for one week, what would you do?
Bruce Nolan toils as a "human interest" television reporter in Buffalo, NY, but despite his high ratings and the love of his beautiful girlfriend, Bruce remains unfulfilled. At the end of the worst day in his life, he angrily ridicules God — and the Almighty responds, endowing Bruce with all of His divine powers.
Bruce Almighty keeps every mind human — it fights its subject at zero distance. The story fights on E8/E9 of the E0–E14 reality ladder, compressing faith, media, authority.
Same rung, same subject
Films fighting at the same level of reality, about the same things.
Same subject, different rung
The same preoccupations examined at another scale — one mind versus a nation.
Also bends a rule of reality
Other films that change a standing rule of their world — ranked first by those bending it at the same rung.
Ghostbusters (2016)alters at E1 · same rung · loose
Roger & Me (1989)alters at E1 · same rung · rigorous
Monsters University (2013)alters at E1 · same rung · loose
Monsters, Inc. (2001)alters at E1 · same rung · rigorous
2012 (2009)alters at E1 · same rung · loose
The Prestige (2006)alters at E1 · same rung · loose
